Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?
- To: Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR
- Cc: Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de, goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de, bam@snoopy.apana.org.au, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?
- From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:41:29 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19990405174129.L21665@kitenet.net>
- Mail-followup-to: Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR, Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de, goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de, bam@snoopy.apana.org.au, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <14081.7303.279010.202734@rabaud.ens-lyon.fr>; from Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:51:07PM +0200
- References: <19990305065740.3446.qmail@snoopy.apana.org.au> <q9bthbm4of.fsf@fphp16.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> <19990330165758.A381@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <14081.7303.279010.202734@rabaud.ens-lyon.fr>
Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR wrote:
> Just to complicate things: we really should make it possible to have
> multi-platform installations. On alpha, for example, we have something
> called `em86' which permits us to use i386 binaries. This requires, of
> course, that they `see' i386 libraries etc.: only the kernel remains the
> alpha one for them...
I have a dpkg patch that enables this. It makes dpkg read a file named
/etc/dpkg/architectures. The file lists architectures that can be installed
on the machine.
--
see shy jo
Reply to: